Improvement in heating-stoves



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Heating-Stoves.

A Ngo. 15 8 57 2 f Pajtented Jan. 12, 1875.

UNTTED STATEs GILBERT COMSTOCK, OF KEOKUK, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN Hx-:A'rlNe-sroves.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 158,572, dated January12, 1875; application filed September 11, 1874.

Fig. II, Sheet 2, is vertical cross-section. Fig.

III shows part ofthe base-plate. Fig. IV is a detail of a part ofdouble-plate corner-cola mns in horizontal section.

The object of this invention is to make a heating-stove that will bespecially adapted to warmin g the feet, to improve the construction andavoid the faults of other similar stoves, and to enable such stoves tobe made better looking.

First. The first object is to make a stove suited to agreeably warmingthe feet, where they may be supported on a foot-plate at a suitable lowelevation from the floor and below the stove, so they may be warmed ontop, and where the foot-plate will be so separated from the stove as notto be heated to burn the shoes or feet. To do this the base-plate H ismade and arranged, as shown, separate from and under the stove,projecting on all sides to receive the feet. The stove rests on and4over this at a suitable elevation, supported by the end plates E E atthe corners. The stovebody A is made rounded on its lower side like ahorizontal cylinder, so its sides will overhang the foot-rest at thesides and throw heat from above onto the tops of the feet on it to heatthem agreeably. To throw the heat down freely the outer wall is made ot'sheet metal, and the tire put into the fire-chamber inside the innerwall, L, having a door in the end plate, and the hot smoke is circulatedbetween the two walls under and at the sides of the stove to avoid theobstruction of ashes in the stove-bottom. v A

Second. The second object is to provide against Weakness ot constructionand faulty attachment of legs. To do this the legs are not attached tothe e'nd plates by casting or bolting, as usual with such stoves, nor inany other way, but are set under the base-plate H,

To do this the end plates E E are extendedw beyond the sides and topofthe body A, with such outlines as to give relief to the form of thestove. To make this orn amental extension at the sides strong enough toform supportingcolumns at the corners, and to avoid breakage without toogreat weigh t, this portion F down the sides to the base-plate andoutside of the body A, is made double, of thin castings rivetedtogether, with moldings and spaces between their central parts. Thismakes strong columns F, and a rm frame for the body A, and enablesmolded relief designs to be made on each face to add to the goed looks.They same means is used to give the top projecting points and partsstrength, lightness, and ornamental faces on each side.

Fourth. To prevent the weight of pipe and pipe connection N from saggingdown the sheet-metal outer Wall of body A, to turn in its bearings, asaround the cylinder, the pipeconnection is made with a leg, T, andbaseplate H is arranged with it to bear the Weight and hold the partsirmly in place, avoiding all such trouble in this class of stoves.

Fifth. To avoid the trouble from dampers in this class of stoves,arising from the long sliding dampers warping in their bearings, andfrom pivoted tilting dampers having to be operated from the back sideincouveniently, the damper is made pivoted, as shown, and tiltingbackward to open from tire-chamber into the pipe-connection N in themiddle of one of the long sides, which is set usually next the Wall; anda rock-shaft, N", arranged to be turned by a crank, enters the stovefrom the front end beside the door, Where' most suitable for use, and inline with damper-pivots, and eX- tends inside to the damper, bendingsidewise to unite with damper away from the pivots, to turn it to openor close.

I claimy 1. The combination of the rounded horizontal sheet-metal body Aand the rest T from pipe-connection N to base-plate H, substantially asset forth.

2.,' The combination of the double-plate columns F and the base-plate H,to support the stove, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of the rounded horizontal body A and the end plateshaving double plates F" outside of the body down to the baseplate H,substantially as set forth.

GILBERT COMSTOCK.

Witnesses:

SAML. J. WALLACE, M. R. KING.

